Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 21, 1993 TAG: 9304210174
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The legislation's central focus is to provide funding for research and development for a national network that would route information at unprecedented speed and allow the network to transmit medical and library information.
One goal of the legislation would be to create a way for medical specialists across the country to simultaneously evaluate sophisticated medical tests, such as CAT scans, while a patient is on the examining-room table.
The new law might also help make it possible for a student to browse through the index of an electronic library in the Library of Congress through his or her personal computer and print out needed information within minutes.
Those are two examples of the benefits of the $1.6 billion High Performance Computing and High Speed Networking Applications Act of 1993 that will be introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, and Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., the chairman and ranking Republican, respectively, of the House subcommittee on science.
"The national telecommunications network will play as central a role in our nation's development in the 21st century as did roads, canals and railroads in the 19th and 20th centuries," the congressmen said Monday in a letter seeking support from their House colleagues.
by CNB